1. The meeting was called to order at 1:40 p.m. by President
Dale Newman.

2. MSP (unanimous) to accept the February 6th, '97 minutes.

3. Treasurer's Report. See attachment number
3.

4. Professor David Jordan, the new professor of Law, is
introduced to the membership. Professor Jordan expresses his
appreciation for the support and guidance the Academic Senate
provides to new faculty.

5. There is no public address. This item is required by the
Brown Act.

6. President's Report

A. Regarding the new LRC/Library, the library staff will
not move in until everything is up and running so the students
are not inconvenienced.. A few more details need to be finished.
The Fire Marshall needs to sign-off and the furniture moved in.
Tentatively the staff is set to move in by mid-March. Some
concerns are expressed about the accessibility of the
teleconferencing room for disabled students.

B. Sonia Soto-Bair volunteers to represent LAMC on the
DAS Educational Planning and Advisory Committee (EPAC). Sonia is
replacing Enrique Gonzales so Enrique can devote more of his time
to being Chairperson of LAMC's Curriculum Committee.

C. Gwen and Dale will meet regularly with the president.
The faculty hiring motion to hire 10 new full-time faculty per
year till the 75% full-time to 25% part-time faculty proportion
is reached was given to President Norlund. The president studied
the motion and was not opposed to it. Discussions are continuing.
The hiring of the permanent vice president of Academic Affairs is
occuring this spring. Applications are due in by the end of March
when a committee will be formed. By the 2nd week in April the
committee will review applications and select candidates to
interview. Interviews should be set up by the first of May and by
the first of June the actual hiring should occur. It is not yet
clear whether the vice president of Administrative Services
position is a certificated or classified position. Until there is
a definite ruling, we are continuing with a temporary position.
Carlie Tronto's transfer was approved, so after the Vice
president of Academic Affairs is chosen, then the hiring of the
Permanent Dean of Instruction will occur. Now that we have our
District governance document, the Board of Trustees must sign-off
on all our individual college governance agreements. Discussions
are continuing with the president on this issue.

D. Regarding the $2500 from the DAS to buy a copier, the
college would contribute the maintenance while we would supply
the paper, toner, etc. The copier itself would cost $1100, so the
rest could go to paper, toner, etc. The copier is for the faculty
and is to be housed in the faculty offices. Please send your
suggestions to the Work Environment Committee regarding exactly
where in the faculty offices it should be placed. It is mentioned
that there needs to be a monitoring system set up to monitor the
number of copies each faculty member makes.

E. John Cantley is appointed to the LAMC Validation
Team. Along with John Cantley, the members include Suzanne
Ritcheson, Enrique Gonzales, Herbert Aquino, Jesus Ochoa, James
Russell, Tom Oliver, Bill Norlund, Mark Pracher and David Jones.

F. Regarding phones for part-time faculty, Shari
Borchetta indicates a "dummy number" can be issued for
part-time faculty. Students could call the number and leave
messages, even though each part-timer would not have an
individual phone assigned to him/her. Part-time faculty could
pick up messages from any phone on campus and also from home.
This is planned to be in place by the Fall, '97 semester.

7. Committee Reports

A. Regarding the Curriculum Committee, all should have
received a copy of the newly proposed general education
requirements. Paul Kubicki voiced his concern over the lack of
computer literacy in the proposed general education requirements
in light of CSUN's requirement that its students be computer
literate. There will be two open forums on April 18th and April
25th at LACC regarding these proposed general education
requirements. More information will be coming out about these
upcoming forums. A two page position paper can be submitted prior
to the forums, or a two minute presentation can be made in person
at the forums. It is expected that the committee will complete
its work after the forums on the 2nd of May. The DAS should
receive it by May 8th, and the Academic Senate of LAMC should
receive it approximetly at the same time. The minutes of the last
Curriculum Committee meeting is included along with the March 6th
agenda. What will finally be decided will be what we will live
with for several years to come. Enrique Gonzales strongly
encourages all faculty with a concern to participate. Besides the
above computer literacy issue, courses revolving around
multicultural content are also being discussed.

David Jones address validation of prerequisites and exit
competencies. David is concerned that many of our validations and
competencies are not completed. David has seen program reviews
that do not have a single competency listed. These are specific
requirements, not general requirements, which make the problem
all the more serious. David states that the senate needs to
encourage the faculty to get this task done. David recommends
that workshops be established to demonstrate how competencies are
expressed and measured.

B. Regarding the DAS report, page 7d attached to the
agenda contain the motions passed at the last meeting.

C. Mark Pracher sent a notice to all department,
discipline and cluster chairpersons to fill out paperwork
concerning any new full-time hiring that is anticipated in their
disciplines. The forms assist the above faculty members establish
"a case" for the proposed position(s). If the completed
forms could be received back to Mark within the next week, the
Hiring Committee could then get back to the senate its
recommendations in time for the senate's April meeting. This
effort coincides with the 75% full-time to 25% part-time faculty
goal discussed earlier by the senate. It is noted that some
disciplines interview in December for the following fall
semester, so the sooner our process is started the better. It is
also noted that if you want a long-term substitute to continue
after the fiscal year ends, it is very important that you fill
out this paperwork as well.

D. Larry Andre reports on the Honors Program. Sixteen students
have their application in, two without contract. Forms are being
submitted to UCLA, CSUN and USC for acceptance into the Transfer
Alliance. A mass mailing will be disseminated to all students who
have completed criteria for the Honors Program.

E. Mark Pracher reports for Joanne Kalter-Flink with
regard to the Student Equity Committee, and in particular to the
Staff Survey. All are encouraged to turn in their surveys in a
timely fashion. The questions are on the center of the page, with
one type of answer on the right and one type of answer on the
left. You are to fill in both types of answers. Mark suggests
doing either the right or left column of answers completely, and
then going back to answer the remaining column completely. This
prevents confusion in going back and forth between types of
answers. Return the survey to the box designated in the mailroom
or in green mailbox located outside the Admissions Office. The
purpose of the survey is to get a picture of the staff's actual
responses compared to what we believe the college is doing, and
compared to the students' response on last year's student survey.
The final analysis may result in an action plan to enhance
services to students based on needs we might not presently be
aware of. The deadline for returning the staff survey is March
14th. After that date the surveys cannot be scored by the USA
Group Noel-Levitz Company.

8. Old Business

A. The committee sent out a memo asking for
recommendations regarding how we would spend the $10,000 Bowman
donation. The only stipulation is that the donation be spent on
something for the new LRC/Library.

B. Leslie Milkie reports that the Graduation Committee is
still looking for a speaker. A memo is circulated regarding
suggestions for an outstanding alumni speaker. It is currently
planned to have a breakfast in honor of the graduates on the day
before graduation. Efforts are being made to encourage faculty to
attend graduation. Graduation will be on campus this year, facing
the new building.

C. With regard to committee make-up, the last faculty
election decided to have all faculty divided into three groups:
Group One - Arts & Letters, Liberal Arts, ESL and
Developmental Communications; Group Two - Math & Science,
Computer Science and Engineering; Group Three - Professional
Studies. Counselors, Librarians, DSP&S and others are placed
in each of the three groups. Aaron Schrier, Rick Scuderi, Suzanne
Ritcheson and Sandy Thomsen are in Group One; Gwen Walker, Sonia
Soto-Bair, Joanne Kalter-Flink and Ed Casson are in Group Two;
Jose Luis Ramirez, Enrique Gonzalez, and Sharon (Library staff)
are in Group Three. The membership voiced no objections to the
Counselors, etc. being placed in this manner.

Dale sent a memo asking for volunteers interested in
serving on the new Presidents Coordinating Council. MPAC is now
going to be in a "Town Hall" format approximatly twice
a semester. The new Coordinating Council will probably meet every
other Tuesday at l:30 p.m. We have 4 faculty slots on this
committee. This is the governance body on the campus now. The
senate gets two of the slots and currently we have 3 candidates
for the two slots - Alex Yguado, John Klitsner and Harlan
Goldberg. Leslie Milkie, Paul Kubicki and Maria Fenyes also
volunteer to be candidates for the two slots. The two names will
be drawn by lot within the next few days. In the future these two
slots will probably be decided by election, but for the time
being we have to have the slots filled immediately because the
committee is scheduled to meet on the 18th of March.

D. Concerning staff development, David Jones expresses
the importance of a staff development plan that is thematic and
in direct support of the college goals, and much in the same
format as the Master Plan with its goals and objectives. Staff
training in the use of the new Library/LRC would be an integral
part of the staff development plan, but not the only important
aspect of the plan. The plan would need to be much broader in
scope than any one type of training. It is suggested that someone
be hired to coordinate staff development with the above in mind.

MSP (Jones, La Rosa - 19 Yes, 0 No, 2 Abs.) that the
Vice President of Academic Affairs hire a staff development
expert to develop a comprehensive staff development plan.

9. New Business

A. Gina La Monica presents a plan to recognize the
outstanding teachers and students in the PACE program. The top 3
teachers identified from a student survey would be so honored in
a PACE awards ceremony. Also 3 outstanding students would be
identified via instructor survey and honored in the same PACE
awards ceremony. The PACE ceremony will take place after the last
PACE final examination.

B. Dale Newman announces the Worksite Experience Summer
Program to the membership.

C. Regarding other business, Phil Pearson needs to do a
mandated updated sexual harassment training before the semester
ends. He would like feedback from the membership regarding ideas
to make the training as productive as possible. Ideas about
content, format, time, dates, etc. would be appreciated. Please
contact Phil with any of your ideas.

Ed Raskin announces that we will not receive our pay
increase until mid-April, and the retroactive pay will probably
be issued in late May or June. Also May 5th is Lobby Day in
Sacramento. If you have legislative issues to be addressed, this
is a good time to fly up to Sacramento with colleagues and lobby
for them.

There being no other business, MSP (unanimous) to
adjourn the meeting. Meeting adjourned at 2:50 p.m.